This looks nice. I will have a look. Meanwhile, does it have a Gantt view?
Looks like they just announced Gantt on the changelog: https://plane.so/changelog
Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
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Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#92I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?
Check out Taiga: https://www.taiga.io/ By the creators of Penpot, free plan is basically only missing premium support. Not sure about the login though...there seem to be some plugins for it, not sure how that works with the hosted version?
Do you know if it integrates with GitHub pull-requests?
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#93I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?
I've used Redmine although with just 2 users: https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki The per-project wiki feature is useful for documentation.
I used to use Redmine at a company I worked for several years ago. There was probably about 20 of us in total. It worked well.
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#94From a brief look at the code, it appears to be written in python. I am surprised at that choice for an application that has speed as a goal. Of course database performance is likely to dominate, but every bit adds up. I feel like I’ve only heard bad things about trying to maintain a service written in python long term (both from a performance perspective, as well as ease of code maintenance). This is not first hand knowledge though. Does anyone here have experience to comment on the wisdom of using python in an application like this?
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#95Can it auto-delete issues untouched for the last 30 days? Idk if jira can, but this would be the single biggest productivity boost to any organization forced to use this sort of software.
Why would you want to do that? I personally hate those “stale issue” bots on GitHub, and this sounds like the same.
Like it or hate it, there just isn’t enough time and energy to do all the things you might like to do. Triaging and prioritizing are usually best done manually, but “it hasn’t been worked on” is a cheap and acceptably accurate proxy for “not that important” for some teams.
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#96How widespread is Ctrl + K -> insert URL?? Because using it for something else could cause confusion (already encountered on other platforms).
It's very common across lots of platforms. Slack overrides it, and it irritates me (although I have adjusted to Slack's alternative which is that Cmd/Ctrl+V turns selected text into a link with the clipboard URL, which is actually really slick).
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#97I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…
Is Jira that bad? It sure is a mess, but that's because its requirement are a mess. It is not SAP but that's the idea, something that sits between developers, testers, management, customers, etc... People who want different things, speak different languages, and somehow need to work together. If you just want an issue tracker, there are many options. Bugzilla, Mantis, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea,... Some of them customizab…
Jira sucks in the same way that email sucks - the platform is fine, the stuff people put in it sucks. you probably don't hate jira, you hate your boss, or their boss, or your colleagues, or your business's development practices or prioritization. or your developer's productivity levels, if you're looking at it from the management side.
but it's easier (and probably healthier) for jira to soak up that hatred. jira's good at that.
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've used Redmine although with just 2 users: https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki The per-project wiki feature is useful for documentation.
I always liked how Redmine has a tree of projects, rather than just a list.
OpenProject (www.openproject.org) is a fork of Redmine. I have not used it, but I did extensive research on it a couple of years ago while looking for a new project management system for our division. I think it is worth a look.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Jira that bad? It sure is a mess, but that's because its requirement are a mess. It is not SAP but that's the idea, something that sits between developers, testers, management, customers, etc... People who want different things, speak different languages, and somehow need to work together. If you just want an issue tracker, there are many options. Bugzilla, Mantis, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea,... Some of them customizab…
Jira sucks in the same way that email sucks - the platform is fine, the stuff people put in it sucks. you probably don't hate jira, you hate your boss, or their boss, or your colleagues, or your business's development practices or prioritization. or your developer's productivity levels, if you're looking at it from the management side. but it's easier (and probably healthier) for jira to soak up that hatred. jira's g…
even a default jira is unusable just from a slowness perspective.
Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
#100I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…
> Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. It's... free? Isn't that a pretty big difference? https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing
Not really. Jira licensing costs are on the order of about 10 minutes of employee time per month. So, if it is even slightly worse it's a financial disaster. (Of course, Jira itself is hell, but then what is a likely-buggy and feature incomplete version of hell?)
Plus, even if the software itself is free, you still have to host it somewhere.